CSChristoffel SneijdersThree brains: head, heart and gut for decisions you keep deferring

How 3 Brains Intelligence Transforms Your Life: Align Head, Heart, & Gut For Success! #shorts

12 Feb 2024 · 1 min

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In this YouTube short, Christoffel Sneijders challenges the long‑standing “three brains” framework that divides the mind into a reptilian brain, an emotional brain, and a human brain. He argues that this model is no longer scientifically valid, citing neurobiologist Michael Gershon—author of The Second Brain and pioneer of gut‑brain research—and neuroscientist Lisa Baird Feldman, who together have produced extensive research disproving the simplistic three‑brain categorization. Sneijders uses this critique to suggest that modern neuroscience offers a more accurate understanding of brain‑gut interactions, implying that aligning head, heart, and gut should be based on current scientific insights rather than outdated metaphors.

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So in the old days, this is what I was teaching 10, 20, 30 years ago. We have a reptilian brain, an emotional brain, and a human brain. I'm not going to ask who still believes it because then I have to say, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, not true anymore because this is actually scientifically proven. It's not true anymore based on neurobiologist Michael Gershon, who is, you could say, the inventor of the second brain or wrote the book The Second Brain about the gut. Neuroscientist Lisa Baird Feldman defined a massive amount of research that this is not true.